A Quartet of Cartoon Petals
scattered atop a detail from the front cover of the Peter Saville designed New Order LP Power Corruption and Lies or the Fantin-Latour Roses painting, depending on your high/low cultural reference point of preference.

And typing of low reference, for whatever reason, three out of these four panels from September 1993 feature puns. I think I just wanted a break from receiving hate mail, but there’s really no good excuse. Click on them for enlargement and further backpedaling verbiage.

Your forgiveness and patience are always appreciated. Purchasing things from the order form is also encouraged, although certainly not required. Same rules apply for sending email. Are there rules for rose references? Let’s ask Salvador Dali, The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. Thank you Sal.